Macintosh Floppy drive repair guide
Hi all, I rember that someone in the group had done a presentation of Macintosh floppy drive repair (it might have been Ian P, not sure). I have decided that my pile of bad 1 and 2 MB Mac floppy drives needs attended to, they are all Sony auto inject drives. Was there a resentation ever done, and if so, was there a powerpoint that was with it? Or if anyone knows of a website with a good tutorial. Thanks, -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG
Yeah, that was me that gave that presentation. I don't think it got videotaped. Also, the floppy drive repair was only a part of it, I was going over a lot of different Mac related repairs. The repair for both the 800K and 1.4mb auto inject drives is pretty much the same, you have to remove the upper disk carriage and clean the points at which the pieces slide - the old grease will have solidified and glued it all together. I've not put anything together on the subject - there might be something out there, but I'm not sure. If anyone is interested, I can do a session at the next workshop or something. -Ian On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Matt Patoray via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I rember that someone in the group had done a presentation of Macintosh floppy drive repair (it might have been Ian P, not sure).
I have decided that my pile of bad 1 and 2 MB Mac floppy drives needs attended to, they are all Sony auto inject drives.
Was there a resentation ever done, and if so, was there a powerpoint that was with it?
Or if anyone knows of a website with a good tutorial.
Thanks, -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG
I believe Tony Diaz gave a presentation at Kfest some odd years ago about repairing those Apple drives, and the video is on the Internet somewhere but I'm not sure where. I'll ask Tony if he remembers where it's posted. Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 26, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Ian Primus via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Yeah, that was me that gave that presentation. I don't think it got videotaped. Also, the floppy drive repair was only a part of it, I was going over a lot of different Mac related repairs.
The repair for both the 800K and 1.4mb auto inject drives is pretty much the same, you have to remove the upper disk carriage and clean the points at which the pieces slide - the old grease will have solidified and glued it all together. I've not put anything together on the subject - there might be something out there, but I'm not sure. If anyone is interested, I can do a session at the next workshop or something.
-Ian
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Matt Patoray via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I rember that someone in the group had done a presentation of Macintosh floppy drive repair (it might have been Ian P, not sure).
I have decided that my pile of bad 1 and 2 MB Mac floppy drives needs attended to, they are all Sony auto inject drives.
Was there a resentation ever done, and if so, was there a powerpoint that was with it?
Or if anyone knows of a website with a good tutorial.
Thanks, -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG
I believe this is the link for the video. https://www.kansasfest.org/tag/tony-diaz/ Tony Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 26, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Jonathan Gevaryahu via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I believe Tony Diaz gave a presentation at Kfest some odd years ago about repairing those Apple drives, and the video is on the Internet somewhere but I'm not sure where. I'll ask Tony if he remembers where it's posted.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 26, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Ian Primus via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Yeah, that was me that gave that presentation. I don't think it got videotaped. Also, the floppy drive repair was only a part of it, I was going over a lot of different Mac related repairs.
The repair for both the 800K and 1.4mb auto inject drives is pretty much the same, you have to remove the upper disk carriage and clean the points at which the pieces slide - the old grease will have solidified and glued it all together. I've not put anything together on the subject - there might be something out there, but I'm not sure. If anyone is interested, I can do a session at the next workshop or something.
-Ian
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Matt Patoray via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I rember that someone in the group had done a presentation of Macintosh floppy drive repair (it might have been Ian P, not sure).
I have decided that my pile of bad 1 and 2 MB Mac floppy drives needs attended to, they are all Sony auto inject drives.
Was there a resentation ever done, and if so, was there a powerpoint that was with it?
Or if anyone knows of a website with a good tutorial.
Thanks, -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG
Sorry, hit send a tad early! There are multiple videos on that page. The first is a 2012 drive video and there is another one further down the page (along with lots of other goodies!) Tony Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 26, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I believe this is the link for the video. https://www.kansasfest.org/tag/tony-diaz/ Tony
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 26, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Jonathan Gevaryahu via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I believe Tony Diaz gave a presentation at Kfest some odd years ago about repairing those Apple drives, and the video is on the Internet somewhere but I'm not sure where. I'll ask Tony if he remembers where it's posted.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 26, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Ian Primus via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Yeah, that was me that gave that presentation. I don't think it got videotaped. Also, the floppy drive repair was only a part of it, I was going over a lot of different Mac related repairs.
The repair for both the 800K and 1.4mb auto inject drives is pretty much the same, you have to remove the upper disk carriage and clean the points at which the pieces slide - the old grease will have solidified and glued it all together. I've not put anything together on the subject - there might be something out there, but I'm not sure. If anyone is interested, I can do a session at the next workshop or something.
-Ian
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Matt Patoray via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I rember that someone in the group had done a presentation of Macintosh floppy drive repair (it might have been Ian P, not sure).
I have decided that my pile of bad 1 and 2 MB Mac floppy drives needs attended to, they are all Sony auto inject drives.
Was there a resentation ever done, and if so, was there a powerpoint that was with it?
Or if anyone knows of a website with a good tutorial.
Thanks, -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG
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